Stapleton Athletics
o Tossing opponents into the ropes will force them to bounce off and back towards you prepare yourself for a follow-up grapple or heavy strike. o You can perform environmental grapples by tossing opponents into the corners of the ring. o Press run near one of the four corners of the ring to jump onto the turnbuckle, from where you can perform a KO attack. o Martial artists can perform their KO attack from any part of the outer ring.
Learn New Moves
The third way to spend your development points is to buy new blaze attacks, and while it's definitely cool to have variety of attacks with which to pummel your foes, it doesn't actually help your chance at beating the game. Every blaze attack deals the same damage as the others, which makes having more than blaze attack, technically, useless. Since you won't benefit from having more than one blaze attack, there's no reason to waste your dev points here unless you're not worried about the rest...
o SPECIAL KO
Kickboxers get KOs through their own brand of power grapples. Hold the power modifier and press the grapple button to initiate the attack. Then, attack with varying knee strikes by pressing the kick button and any direction on the left thumbstick. It takes about six or seven knee strikes to initiate the final attack which is strong enough to KO your opponent to get to that last attack, your opponent must already be relatively low on health 1 3rd of a life bar or less . If you try the move...
o GRAPPLE REVERSE
Press either punch or kick when you see an opponent try to grapple you. Again, simply holding the block button is only effective against punches and kicks. If an opponent goes to grapple you, you'll have to reverse the grapple, throwing their arms off of you and coming back with an attack of your own. To do so, press either the punch or kick button the moment that your opponent goes to grapple you. You'll shrug off their grab attempt, and knock them back with an attack of your own.